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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

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Drupal 7 Business Solutions

Overview of this book

You can use the Drupal 7 content management system to build a small business website quickly. You may add blogs, images, maps, e-commerce, social application integration, and more to your site to connect with your customers and make more money from your business. Drupal 7 Business Solutions will give you hands-on practical tutorials on how to build a rich and dynamic website for your business quickly using one of the most popular tools in open source. You'll start by adding blogs and images to your website. Then you'll learn how to add a VIP section to your site so that you can give your logged in users special discounts and other VIP freebies. Next, you will learn to send your customers e-mail newsletters and show them a dynamic events calendar. The book will then teach you to add e-commerce to your site so you can sell your products online. You'll add YouTube videos and Google maps to help enhance your business site. You will then learn to incorporate feedback mechanisms for your customers. The book also explains how to maintain your site, upgrade it, and continue adding dynamic content to it.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Drupal 7 Business Solutions
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Disadvantages of Drupal


Although Drupal is a very powerful tool, its very power causes a few disadvantages:

  • A short learning curve is needed to get started and use the system effectively.

  • It is more hardware-intensive than basic static pages. As it's more hardware-intensive and can create performance issues on a server, you may need to make sure that your organization or business can handle the expense of upgrading a server and the overall server infrastructure to support the site. This may include more expensive hosting options

  • Additional programming may be needed to customize Drupal modules to do exactly what you want. Alternatively, you may have to compromise on desired functionality, based on what is actually available

  • Drupal may be more vulnerable to security issues as there are a large number of sites that use Drupal, and hackers may target Drupal sites as it's a popular open source software used by many site developers

  • Along the same lines as security, Drupal sites require frequent module and software updates in order to keep the website secure and stable. This is extremely important in order to keep your Drupal codebase secure

  • There may be limitations to the framework, which could make building custom functionality more difficult